Please provide content from Lecture 4 (July 8, 2009) on this page.
Cuban Missile Crisis:
- October 1962
- What? Soviet Ballistic Missiles are being massed in Cuba, U-2 US Spying planes take shots and send them to white house.
- Important? Brought the world on an all out nuclear war
- Small facts: Some Missiles Operational at time of detection. One U-2 Plane shot on orders of a Soviet commander. US imposed blockade on Cuba although Soviet military ships were still able to go through.
- Result: Missiles withdrawn from Cuba, Missiles withdrawn from Turkey (secret), US promise not to invade Cuba.
Similar event: Able Archer
Cuban Missile Crisis:
- October 1962
- What? Soviet Ballistic Missiles are being massed in Cuba, U-2 US Spying planes take shots and send them to white house.
- Important? Brought the world on an all out nuclear war
- Small facts: Some Missiles Operational at time of detection. One U-2 Plane shot on orders of a Soviet commander. US imposed blockade on Cuba although Soviet military ships were still able to go through.
- Result: Missiles withdrawn from Cuba, Missiles withdrawn from Turkey (secret), US promise not to invade Cuba.
Similar event: Able Archer